The Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) of the University of Macau (UM) successfully organized the student orientation for undergraduate and postgraduate students for the 2024/2025. This year, more than 1,000 new students have enrolled / will enroll in the five undergraduate programmes, nine master’s programmes and seven doctoral programmes offered by FSS.
Prof. Richard Weixing Hu, Dean of FSS, encouraged the new students with the following: firstly, to cherish the opportunity of joining UM and to find their own goals and directions in life; secondly, to integrate the development of technology such as Artificial Intelligence to do well in academic research; and thirdly, to keep innovating and exploring, and to participate more in the community so as to integrate their own goals in life with the direction of the development of the country and the society.
Meanwhile, the four new students of FSS also shared their expectations on their new life at UM. Leer Wang, a freshman from the Department of Economics, hoped to practice her English and acquire more professional knowledge at FSS. She looked forward to participating in social clubs and will plan to pursue further study in the future; Xiao C, a freshman from the Department of Government and Public Administration, hoped to take part in more activities and improve her professional skills; and Xiao Chi, an exchange student from China, was very much looking forward to gaining a different school experience at UM; Another exchange student Paul shared his first impression of UM: ”Everyone here respects one another. And it’s a very uprising culture in Macau.”
Other faculty members also attended the orientation, they are: Prof. Tianji Cai, Associate Dean; Prof. Richard Fitzgerald, Associate Dean; Prof. Bo Wen, Assistant Dean; Prof. Tien Tsung Lee, Head of Department of Communication; Prof. Jun Xu, Head of the Department of Sociology; Prof. Todd Sandel, Programme Coordinator of Bachelor of Social Sciences in Communication; Prof. Hong Wai Ho, Programme Coordinator of Bachelor of Social Sciences in Economics; Prof. Yang Zu, Programme Coordinator of Master of Social Sciences in Economics; Prof. Xiangning Wu, Programme Coordinator of Bachelor of Social Sciences in Government and Public Administration, Prof. Kin Sun Chan, Programme Coordinator of Master of Social Sciences in Public Administration; Prof. Daina Chiba, Programme Coordinator of Master of Social Sciences in International Relations & Public Policy; Prof. Tieyuan Guo, Programme Coordinator of Bachelor of Social Sciences in Psychology; Prof. Yi Li, Programme Coordinator of Bachelor of Social Sciences in Sociology, and Prof. Agnes LAM, Programme Coordinator of Master of Philosophy in Macao Studies.
